$112 million available for next two years
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A huge shortage of child-care slots persists in Montana — can federal Covid-19 relief funds make a dent?
Posted at 1:41 PM, Aug 20, 2021 and last updated 1:41 PM, Aug 20, 2021
HELENA — If you’re looking for a child-care slot for your kids in Montana right now – good luck.
“We take 50 children at a time, and I have 70 kids on my wait-list,” says Hannah Danzer, director of Rocky Mountain Preschool Center in Helena. “I won’t even be able to look at that wait-list of 70 kids until the fall of 2022. … This is one of the biggest problems in our community.”
“There’s a crisis in child care,” adds Jane Schumacher, executive director of Child Care Connections, based in Bozeman.
